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Partying at Marion Hall by Chris McCarron

The word around the campus was that the parties at Marion Hall were becoming a little too wild. One of the guys staying at Marion told me there had been "quite a bit of damage done ata recent weekend party. Icalled Head of Residences, Cathy Ronaghan and she said, ‘‘There’s alwaysa little damage done atthe parties.” When asked if damage or vandalism was on the increase at the residences Cathy replied, ‘‘Nor really. Maybe at Marion.”’ Cathy indicated that there was some damage done at a recent Marion Hall party. She said most of the damage consisted of broken windows. Cathy went on to say that the damage has

all been taken, care of. Cathy said, ‘‘The people who did the damage came forward and they are paying for

the damage they did.”’

TENTION

TUDENT WHO BORROWED BECOMING A ASTER STUDENT, PLEASE RETURN. MANY IANKS, Shirley Hudson Dept of Student Services

April 9, 1992

BEST TWO OUT OF THREE?

On Friday, April 3rd the Biology Club held it’s €xecutive elections. The election had been called the week before and the candidates for President, Doug Gordon and John Dow campaigned during the week

forthe balloting held on Thursday, April 2nd, and Friday, April 3rd.

John Dow won the election with 60% of the vote anda score of 30 votes to 19. For some reason this was unacceptable to the present executive and they’ve now decided to calla re-vote. the reason for the recall of the election was the fact there were more votes than names checked off on the Biology Club list. Thirty were actually on the ballot box. Ironically the differ- ence of 11 voted was the same margin by which John Dow won. The Biology Club executive was obviously under the impression that he had cheated somehow. Not that it would have been hard to do. The election- poll consisted of an ice-cream bucket, a stack of ballots, list of Biology Club members,. and a list of candidates all of which were left unattended for over 24 hours. Granted, there wasa discrepancy in the voting, but to assume that all eleven votes were for John Dow is ludicrous. There was no sign up at the election booth informing voters that they must check off their names as they voted. In fact, it was not even clear that you had to be a Biology Club member to vote in the election.

The president of the Biology Club, Lynn McLead, proved to her membership once again that she is too busy to even run something as simple as this election should have been.

To do this is to assume that every one of the eleven extra votes was for John Dow. You mustalso assume that every person who voted checked their name offof the list of members. This is not the case. Two voters for Mr. Gordon were obviously written in the same had-writing and the same misspelling of his name, That was the most obvious case visible to me. To assume that every member checked their name off the list is also wrong because I know ofat least one member who voted but was unaware that his name had

to be checked off.

John Dow had some good ideas. He was on his way to making the Biology Club of 92-93 one of the best ever, The excitementhe had generated among fellow students who were not Club members but would have been had he been elected was overwhelming. The |

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